AASCU-CCIEE Visiting Instructor Program

Coordinated by AASCU and the China Center for International Educational Exchanges (CCIEE), the Visitor Instructor Program (VIP) invites professors and instructors from AASCU member institutions to teach and/or lecture in Chinese universities to increase the exposure of American teaching methodology and academic disciplines to Chinese students.

VIP aims to accomplish the following goals:

Encourage professional exchanges among faculty members between the United States and Chinese partner institutions

Support student mobility and campus internationalization for both Chinese and American institutions

Allow American faculty members to experience and understand Chinese higher education, culture and Chinese tradition

Provide opportunities for Chinese students to gain American classroom experiences and to have a more seamless transition to American campuses

Program Dates

The courses in this program will be taught in a compressed format over a four-week session in one of the time frames noted below. Selected teaching instructors will be responsible for course planning and delivery and engagement with faculty/staff/students at the host institution. The dates below include days used to travel to and from China. Other proposed dates will also be taken into consideration.

Summer Term of 2019 Session A: May 6 – June 5, 2019
Session B: May 20 – June 19, 2019

If you have similar dates available for 2020, you are welcome to submit an early application. If you have plans to teach for a semester or one academic year in the next two years, you are also welcome to submit an application.

Program Requirements

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

Be a full-time lecturer or teacher in a U.S. university: Full-time professors with terminal degrees are strongly preferred, but those with master’s degrees and/or part-time faculty members with extensive experience may also apply. Subject matter experts with a strong interest in teaching are also encouraged to apply.

Deliver one academic course (three or four credits standard) or serial lectures on certain topics in four weeks of teaching at a Chinese host university, teaching 12-16 hours per week on a schedule provided by the host institution. Please see the “High-Demand Disciplines and Majors” section for topic suggestions.

Provide one or two seminars on American culture, teaching methods, or academic discipline development (to be determined by the host institution).

How to Apply

Complete the application form with the required materials and send them to the AASCU office (address below). Application documents can also be emailed to Jody Dixon (
dixonj@aascu.org) and Sufei Li (
lis@aascu.org).

Statement of interest for participating (limit to one page) and description of the courses proposed (no more than three potential courses), with at least a one-paragraph description of each proposed course (a syllabus from a previous offering of a course can also suffice)

A copy of the photo page of your passport (it must be valid for at least eight months beyond the time you are scheduled to return from the program in China)

If emailing your application, please attach each document as a separate file. For questions related to this program or assistance with the application, please contact Sufei Li (
lis@aascu.org) or Jody Dixon (
dixonj@aascu.org).

Mailing Address:

Popular Disciplines and Majors

Below is a list of disciplines and majors that are in popular throughout China. However, the disciplines and majors we will accept for this program are not limited to this list. Our partner universities in China are spread over 20 provinces, four municipality cities and four autonomous regions, and have various needs. We will share the applications with these universities to have them identify potential fits.

Business Administration: Accounting
Economics
Finance
Management
International Business